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Phoenicurus phoenicurus
Redstart or Common redstart is an Old World flycatcher (fam Muscicapidae), roughly the size of sparrow; but slimmer and a bit more elegant in profile. Portrayed here is male, flamboyant in his breeding colours: orange-red breast, pale orange belly, black face and throat, white forehead, ash-grey crown and back. Caught in the middle of his song.
Common flycatcher in Europe woodlands, here observed in central Georgia, in woods on top of a hill dominating Tbilisi.
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